Vapiano

VAPIANO

http://www.vapiano.co.uk

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Vapiano | Vegan Edinburgh Review

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Vapiano is an Italian restaurant with a relaxed approach to dining.

You order your meal at the chef stations in the middle of the restaurant and watch as the chef makes your meal right in front of you, making it really easy to tweak and change your dish as you would like – ideal for those with dietary requirements.

The good news is that, with a little tweaking, there are quite a few vegan options at Vapiano.

Everything in Vapiano is made to order, so you can tell the chef to add or hold ingredients as you please, making it very easy to veganise dishes.

With Vapiano fast becoming a popular choice for omnis in Edinburgh, its good to know that there is plenty for vegans to feast on as well.

Edinburgh: Vapiano · elevatormusik

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Well, the Edinburgh Vapiano restaurant is now open so I thought it was high time for a review.

Peruse the menu, order your food, add in extras, drinks and desserts as you go – then as you leave just hand over your swipe card and pay the bill.

Vapiano also differs from a lot of restaurants because your food is cooked fresh in front of you.

Remove salami from a pizza to make it veggie, or add extra prawns to your pasta dish – simple!

As the Vapiano Edinburgh restaurant is brand new, it feels very swish and modern.

'Strange place, and not in a good way' - Ron Mackenna reviews ...

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Another pleasant person puts exactly five thin slices of garlic clove into a hot wok with oil, a spoonful of chilli and waits as an automatic pasta boiler lowers spaghetti from a little packet into water.

By now I have worked out there is nothing other than pasta, bread, salads, risotto and pizza on the menu.

Menu: Corporate Italian; the idea is pasta made freshly by a machine, pizza dough by hand, oh and you get a charge card, otherwise completely unexciting.

3/5 Price: I thought the bruschetta was overpriced, the pizza and pasta reasonable priced, despite its authentic prep-vibe ingredients seem generally generic.

4/5 Food: Gimmicky attempt to capture the essence of fresh pasta and pizza without real effort or result.

Vapiano - Restaurant with Disabled Access - Edinburgh - Euan's ...

Vapiano - Restaurant with Disabled Access - Edinburgh - Euan's ...

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I covered all three floors during my visit, and that's because the entrance is at the top, the bar is one level down in the middle, and the toilets are on the ground floor.

If you use a wheelchair, there is one lift available between the floors, but for a self-serve restaurant there's a surprising number of staff, so I'm confident assistance would be offered to reduce the number of trips you'd have to make here there and everywhere.

Go one floor down (via stairs or lift), and you'll reach the bar area where there are more high stools, but a few low seated tables with easy to move chairs dotted about.

Be careful if you're carrying food between levels on the stairs, I saw pasta dropped on the big staircase as I was going down which could be a little dangerous if you slip.

As complicated as this whole concept may seem at first (and I would hate to experience the restaurant at full capacity with buzzers going off right, left and centre), there are helpful staff on each floor who seemed to be helpful.

Restaurant chain Vapiano targets expansion in Scotland - The ...

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A European chain of casual dining Italian restaurants set to open its second Scottish branch this month is considering further sites north of the Border.

Its UK and US managing director Phil Sermon told Scotland on Sunday that the Edinburgh restaurant, an 8,770 sq ft 240-cover space just off St Andrew Square, is progressing well.

Asked whether Vapiano is looking to open up anywhere else in Scotland, Sermon said the focus would likely remain on Edinburgh and Glasgow “which we think are perfect cities for us” given the large scale of the group’s restaurants.

Vapiano’s Edinburgh restaurant also sits in the city’s so-called “cuisine quarter” alongside the likes of The Ivy, Dishoom, Gaucho and Wagamama.

Sermon said when the Edinburgh branch welcomed its first customers that the firm was looking forward to bringing its “unique take to Italian food to not only Edinburgh but to Scotland”.

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